Hawthorne effect Puns

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Just reading a paper and it mentions the Hawthorne Effect as:

"[An] effect, which refers to the performance increase of staff members due to the attention they receive as their actions are observed."

Now we finally know why Hawthorne keeps mentioning and listing our achievements.

If your games are anything like mine (and I suspect they are based off the conversations about dodging and the unpopularity of jungling in the zeitgeist recently) then you've likely seen one if not all of the following:

• Flaming in champ select
• Griefing in champ select
• Troll picking in champ select
• Hostage holding in champ select
• Flaming in game
• Real inting in game
• Soft inting in game
• AFKers in game
• Spam pinging assist or q mark spam pinging people
• Spam pinging cooldowns of other players (smite, ult, etc)
• Spamming ff votes when winning
• Holding a lost game hostage by refusing to give up (but not playing to win)
• Flaming your own teammates in the game summary screen
• Poor winners flaming the losing team in the game summary screen
• Begging for reports in game and at the game summary screen

I'm likely to see one if not more than one of these each game that I am in. Yet in one game last week I experienced none of these behaviors. All due to one thing.

In the champ select screen no one said anything except for "glhf" even when I picked a non-meta jungler that is rare but I know how to play. No one flamed in game in either allied or all chat. No one spam pinged. No one soft inted. No one gave up even though we were getting punished early. No spam ff voting and no one said anything in the game summary screen except for "ggwp".

So what gives? Why was this game so different?

Ten internet meme points to Gryffindor to whomever guessed that someone from Riot was in our game. Just the simple of act of being there and observing the game in all phases eliminated all toxicity that was in abundant and dare I say common in every other game. This reminiscent of how drivers are suddenly on their best behavior when driving around a police office. Changing one's behavior if they are known to be observed is The Hawthorne Effect.

Since the game has largely devolved into a state of "the inmates running the asylum" I think we are desperate need of something that I like to call Game Wardens. These players are essentially "deputized" by Riot and their flare is shown in champ select and in the game loading screen to let everyone know that they are being watched by someone that can expedite punishments on bad behavior much like you had a Riot employee playing on your team.

I originally thought that this should be tied to the honor system but I've been reminded that the honor system in its current

Today I learned about The Hawthorne Effect. It comes from behavioral psychology and it states that people act differently when they know they’re being watched and act another way when they think they’re alone. It is mosty used to disprove the results of focus group studies, because people in those experiments actively try to flex their know-how because they know they’re being observed.

Is it just me or this sounds exactly how Pierce’s character is written? He always tries to present himself as smarter or more cultured than he actually is. Usually with the goal of impressing those around him.

This is just speculation on my part but knowing Dan Harmon, this is probably no coincidence right?

There is a natural tendency amongst human beings to work harder and perform better when they are aware that they are being observed. This happens due to the inherent desire of approval. This phenomenon, known as the 'Hawthorne Effect', has been at the core of management techniques that aim to increase productivity of the workforce.

After a chain of experiments conducted on similar lines between 1924 and 1932 in the factories of Western Electric Company, the concept became the centre of all HR management schemes. It laid the foundations for what is known as employee engagement. However, the entire concept seems to be a myth as the data backing the studies cannot be trusted. The productivity levels increased because the employees knew that they were being studied and had to perform better. The entire concept is basically an anecdote with no practical backing. Furthermore, if we are being observed in a corporate environment it can only lead to further distraction from the task in hand and overburdening due to the expectations in place. Observer Effect leads to a cognitive bias which will have a tendency corrupt an individual’s performance in an environment. The only practical application of this concept can be seen in sports, but that is because of a competitive nature as we need to emerge victorious, while in a corporate sector it can serve to potentially increase anxiety. Take a simple example, start-ups are known to have relaxed and free-flowing environments because there is a lack of structure inside the company, therefore, leading to a highly unmoderated environment wherein innovation and productivity thrive.

Is the hawthorne effect outdated and based on idealistic theories and models that are irrelevant to the modern corporate sector? What steps can be taken to increase workforce productivity in an increasingly dynamic environment of the corporate sector today?

So, I am currently taking a Sociology class and have been learning about the Hawthorne Effect. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this term, it applies to the ways people change their behavior when they know they are being observed, specifically as a part of some study or experiment.

Considering Pierce’s rampant insecurities and his perpetual inauthenticity, do you guys think it is at all likely that Harmon and co. named Pierce after the Hawthorne Effect?

The Hawthorne Effect is a study that refers to a type of reactivity in which individuals modify their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed.

The research involved workers who made electrical relays at the Hawthorne Works, an Electric plant in Illinois between 1924 & 1927.

When the lighting in the work area for a few workers was increased, it was observed that the productivity of the workers in that particular bay had also increased.

This went on to establish the fact that change improved productivity.

The Hawthorne studies pioneered a sea of change resulting in a more humanistic view towards employees.

Moreover, The study concluded that job satisfaction increased when workers had the freedom to decide on output standards and their ideal worker conditions and were able to collaborate.

Monitoring in the workplace can encourage good behavior, but also can initiate fear and can narrow worker focus.

Later on, another team of researchers concluded that the workers’ productivity was not being affected by the changes in working conditions, but rather by the fact that someone was concerned enough about their working conditions to conduct an experiment on it.

The Hawthorne Effect is largely about managing employees so they feel more like an integral part of your business.

>One of the first steps that can be taken to integrate the Hawthorne effect in one’s business is to try to put oneself into the employee’s shoes and experience their Point of view (POV) (attempt to see your business operation from their perspective.) Then, an attempt to determine what you could do to enhance a feeling of teamwork and greater participation in the overall success of the business must be initiated.

>Another step can be to make management/experts easily available when they have questions or win situations when their help is required.

Additionally, Hawthorne studies concluded that generally, any change in the workplace tends to induce the Hawthorne effect, it may be a good idea to make changes periodically.

Sources: HRKatha, Lumen Learning, QuickBooks, Reddit, Business Dictionary, Investopedia, Market Business News.

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I don't know if bungie named her this on purpose but would be cool to think they did.

Basically it's an effect where people perform better when getting attention from a higher up.

I don't have a specific question to refer to, but on a test how would you decide between these if they were the answer choices? They all seem incredibly similar

Hi! I'm a full-time physics teacher and part-time League enthusiast, and there is an incredibly important principle I want to share with the community to help improve everyone's ELO.

#The Observer and Hawthorne Effects:

The Observer Effect in Physics:

Let me start with this, since my expertise is primarily in physics. The Observer Effect was first studied by Schrodinger in the classic "Schrodinger's Cat" experiment. If you're unfamiliar with Schrodinger's Cat, it's as follows. In this classic thought experiment, a live cat is placed in a box with a poison that can be released at an unpredictable time. Later in the random future, you (the Observer) decide to open the box. You find the cat is dead; but the question is, was the cat dead the instance before you opened the box? Physics says it's impossible to say because of the unpredictable poison and the random time to open the box; therefore your decision to open the box had a quantifiable impact on the cat's death. This goes on to have implications of the quantum world that are more or less useless to a League of Legends fan.

In short, Schrodinger's Cat and the Observer Effect says that making the decision to observe something will influence the results.

How does this relate to League?

The physics phenomenon "The Observer Effect" is very similar to the Hawthorne Effect, which is based on the science of psychology. This is the phenomenon that states that if participants know they are being studied, their behavior will improve. If you're doing a weight loss study, you're going to change your actual eating behavior to make sure your results "look good," and it makes it harder to determine if the actual weight loss regimen was causing you to lose weight, or if you just made healthier decisions because you felt obligated to do so.

So the Hawthorne Effect makes it really hard to determine if a weight loss regimen works, but who really cares? You lost weight; good for you! This is the essence of what matters to your League ELO. It honestly doesn't matter how you improve; being "observed" to improve will cause you to improve. You gained ELO; good for you!

#How do I Use This to my Advantage?

In short, be observed. Play League like your statistics matter. The Hawthorne Effect will do the improving for you.

There are many things you can do to 'be observed' to trick your brain into improving your skill. I suggest doing as many of them as possible. Not only is th

I've always appreciated Michael's energy. He's a complicated man with a deep need for acceptance and love but still tries to make the most of the day. No matter how outrageous he acted, I never questioned his behavior as being anything but normal (for him at least). The Hawthorne effect/observer effect is "a type of reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed." (wikipedia, links at bottom)

Since 'The Office' was about the making of a docu-series about them (is it too much to presume that's what we've been watching? 9 seasons just seems long for a documentary but I'm not complaining) it could explain the intensity of Michael's overall temperament. In S6 Ep21 (Happy Hour) Michael acts completely differently when he realizes he is on a date. I can only assume the same would occur with a crew of cameras.

It's not just Michael, though- It affects the entire office and anyone the cameras are on. When Jim asked Pam out for the first time, Jim briefly addresses the cameraman thereby confirming the canonical existence of the documentary crew for the first time(I think?). It wasn't until Pam and Jim asked why they were still filming them, in S9 Ep1 (New Guys), that I began to wonder how much the cameras affected the everyone's everyday behavior.

Some of these are more obvious- Bob Vance advertising his name or maybe Jan apprehensive to speak about inappropriate encounters with her subordinate- but I think it goes deeper than that overt awareness of the cameras.. In s9 ep22 (A.A.R.M.) the office is at the bar watching the premiere of the documentary about them and the opening line we hear is the same as the first line of the pilot, confirming an approximate time frame of when the doc crew first arrived. Soon after they come, Dwight steals Jim's sale in s1 ep2 (Diversity Day) and I believe that it is a combination of this and the cameras that drove him to up his game for pranking and manipulating Dwight. Perhaps Dwight retaliated so harshly as an alpha move, to establish his dominance to the audience early on. Aspects of every character were heightened/exaggerated as time went on and the cameras kept filming too. It could give a reasonable explanation as to why Kevin got dumber or Kelly ditsier as the series progressed. In the series finale, we see Michael with a much calmer attitude. It's still him but he feels more fulfilled, being an actual father and getting to see his old friends again.

The definitions I have are: Demand Characteristics = changing attitude in study to match expectations of the experimenter Hawthorne effect/observer effect = reactivity in which individuals modify or improve an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being watched.

Whats the difference?

Specifically the 'change workplace illumination to make people work harder' part.

I found some articles that offer an alternative explanation for the original data, for example, PDF

but no studies trying to replicate the findings. I don't have any journal access though so I just used google. Can anyone point me towards actual studies of the effect?

Good evening folks!

Remember, everyone in this subreddit knows that they are being studied in some way when they take your survey. Many of us may know or think we know what answers you are hoping for and it may bias their response. Some people are also dicks.

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